Elasticity and Viscosity of DNA Liquid Crystals
L. Lucchetti, Tommaso P. Fraccia, Giovanni Nava, Taras Turiv, Fabrizio Ciciulla, Lucas Bethge, Sven Klußmann, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Tommaso Bellini
Abstract
a behavior that is nonconventional in the context of chromonic, polymeric, and thermotropic liquid crystals, indicating a possible role of the weakness and reversibility of the DNA aggregates.
Topics & Concepts
Liquid crystalThermotropic crystalLyotropicViscoelasticityMaterials scienceElasticity (physics)PolymerTwistLyotropic liquid crystalViscosityRheologyPhase (matter)Rubber elasticityChemical physicsOpticsThermodynamicsComposite materialLiquid crystallineChemistryOrganic chemistryPhysicsGeometryOptoelectronicsMathematicsDNA and Nucleic Acid ChemistryLiquid Crystal Research AdvancementsBlock Copolymer Self-Assembly